a historic Quidditch team in the 1100s; they played a game against a Yorkshire team that was described in a now-famous letter from Goodwin Kneen to his cousin Olaf in Norway

Ilkley is a town and civil parish in West Yorkshire, in the north of England. Ilkley civil parish includes the adjacent village of Ben Rhydding and is a ward within the metropolitan borough of Bradford. It has a resident population of 13,828, as measured by Census 2001,http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=3&b=5940989&c=LS29+9QS&d=14&e=16&g=379188&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&enc=1 Ilkley Neighbourhood Statistics: 2001 Population: All people (Accessed 7 January 2007) The Office for National Statistics reports the slightly higher figure of 13,978 in http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_population/Corrected_Mid-2002_Quinary_Ward_Estimates.xls Ward population estimates for England and Wales, mid-2002 (experimental statistics) (Accessed 8 January 2007) and lies mainly on the south bank of the River Wharfe in Wharfedale, one of the Yorkshire Dales.